miliaryadj.n.
/ˈmɪlɪəri/, U.S. /ˈmɪliˌɛri/ A. adj.
1. Chiefly Medicine and Pathology. Of a structure or pathological lesion: of the size of a millet seed; resembling a millet seed.
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miliary1685
1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 23 in Ess. Effects Motion The minute or miliary Glandules of the Skin.
1726 Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 380 There would appear in the Interstices of the Pox several miliary Pustules.
1827 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 2) i. ii. vii. 355 We find a great many ulcers in the intestines, and in most of these, small miliary tubercles.
1854 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. (1875) 241 The deposit of tubercle..occurs in the shape of small miliary granules.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 478 A firm, miliary or prurigo-like papular projection.
1965 W. H. Hargreaves & R. J. G. Morrison Pract. Trop. Med. iv. 161 A symmetrical eruption.., consisting of macules, and miliary papules or pintids.
2. Medicine and Pathology.
a. Of a disease or skin rash: characterized by the presence of miliary lesions (now esp. in miliary tuberculosis n. at Compounds).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [adjective] > spot of miliary fever
miliaceous1684
miliary1726
1726 T. Fuller Let. 13 Feb. in J. Jurin Corr. (1996) 325 I desire descriptions of ye Miliary Fever, & that called a Rash.
1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Purple The purple fever..is sometimes also called spotted and miliary fever.
1776 T. Percival Philos., Med. & Exp. Essays III. 274 The miliary eruption is frequently fabricated by..heating remedies and forced sweats.
1844 T. J. Graham Mod. Domest. Med. (ed. 9) 647 It [sc. scarlet fever] may be distinguished from miliary fever by the miliary eruption being..attended by considerable perspiration.
1874 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 14 311 A form of grey degeneration occurring in the brain and spinal cord, and designated by Drs. Batty Tuke and Rutherford, ‘miliary sclerosis’.
1929 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 9 Feb. 438/1 Acute miliary torulosis of the lungs follows a blood stream dissemination of the torula organisms.
1966 D. M. Dunlop & S. Alstead Textbk. Med. Treatm. (ed. 10) 129 The most serious complication of miliary tuberculosis is tuberculous meningitis.
1987 Science 13 Feb. 793/1 Periodontitis, stomatitis, gingivitis, miliary pustular dermatitis..were recognized in both seropositive and seronegative cats.
1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) xxix. 421 Disseminated listeriosis, which has been given names such as..‘miliary granulomatosis’.
b. Consisting of, relating to, or producing miliary tubercles (see Compounds) or lesions caused by other bacteria or fungi that resemble these.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [adjective] > tuber or tubercle
tuberculous1597
tuberous1656
tubercular1753
tuberculated1793
tuberculate1822
tuberiform1822
tuberculized1835
tuberculo-fibroid1871
miliary1932
1932 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 19 403 Miliary involvement of the lung [in coccidioidal granuloma].
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxii. 558 There may be miliary distribution of the lesions in the lung giving a radiographic picture suggestive of tuberculosis.
1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 278 674/2 Occasionally, pneumonic coccidioidomysis is accompanied by miliary spread.
1984 J. R. Tighe & D. R. Davies Pathol. (ed. 4) iii. 22 Direct spread [of tuberculosis bacilli] occurs to pleura and adjacent lung, lymphatic spread gives rise to lymphadenopathy, and miliary spread may also occur.
1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) II. xxi. 140/1 The chest radiograph is normal in up to half the patients and miliary mottling is seen only in a minority.
3. Biology. Designating or having small rounded projections, as from a plate of an echinoderm.
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the world > plants > appearance of plant > defined by texture > [adjective] > rough, granulated, or powdery
mealy1567
miliary1760
scurvy1763
pulverulent1828
grumous1830
pulveraceous1857
pannose1866
scabrid1866
scabriusculous1866
scaberulous1870
saccharine1889
panniform1894
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xviii. 206 Miliary, like Grains of Millet.
1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 447 A smooth even surface, excepting a neat miliary granulation.
1874 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 164 720 They are composed of numerous plates which bear miliary granules only.
1901 Amer. Naturalist 35 480 In their simplest condition these calcareous deposits take the form of very minute, more or less irregular grains known as miliary granules.
1955 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates IV. ix. 424 Very small spines are termed tertiary or miliary.
1962 D. Nichols Echinoderms viii. 99 The spines of echinoids may be..small (miliary spines).
1991 R. Goldring Fossils in Field iv. 81 There is likely to be loss of the smaller skeletal elements such as..the smaller miliary spines of echinoids and pinnules of crinoids.
1995 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 347 228/2 General miliary spines without any glandular sac.
B. n.
Zoology. A very small tubercle on a plate of an echinoderm.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [noun] > rounded projection
boss1386
ball1530
tubercle1556
tubercule1596
tuberculum1597
tuberosity1611
caruncle1615
papilla1671
bulb1716
tuber1741
mammula1815
mamilla1818
tuberculation1820
verruca1822
monticule1874
miliary1880
1880 Science 18 Sept. 143/2 The increase in the number of primary interambulacral tubercles, accompanied by the growth of secondaries and miliaries.
1980 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 289 10 Miliaries of regular echinoids lack a distinct aureole and have no real platform. The miliaries of irregular echinoids are cap-like and may or may not have a distinct aureole.
1998 Lethaia 31 323 The existing definition of spatangoid fascicles as a narrow band of minute tubercles (miliaries) is inadequate.
Compounds
miliary fever n. [compare French fièvre miliaire (1694)] now historical (originally) any infectious disease characterized by fever and a miliary purpuric rash; (later) an infectious disease characterized by fever, profuse sweating, and the presence of miliaria (often identified with sweating sickness).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > miliary fever
miliary fever1726
millet-rash1822
millet-seed rash1892
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > miliary fever
miliary fever1726
miliaria1771
millet-rash1822
millet-seed rash1892
1726Miliary fever [see sense A. 2a].
1742 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 15 Apr. The Duchess of Cleveland died last night of what they call a miliary fever.
1844 T. J. Graham Mod. Domest. Med. (ed. 9) 647 It [sc. scarlet fever] may be distinguished from miliary fever by the miliary eruption being..attended by considerable perspiration.
1883 C. Creighton tr. A. Hirsch Handbk. Geogr. & Hist. Pathol. I. 110 A retrospect of the history of the English sweat and of the miliary fever..leaves no doubt in my mind, of the close relations between the two diseases.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 635/1 The only modern disease resembling sweating sickness is that known as miliary fever.
1991 Time (Internat. ed.) 22 July 45 The official diagnosis was miliary fever; subsequent medical detectives have suggested ailments as varied as kidney failure, bronchial pneumonia, cerebral hemorrhage.
miliary gland n. [compare French glande miliaire (1701)] (a) Anatomy a gland or glandlike structure of the size of a millet seed; spec. a sebaceous gland; (b) Botany a stoma or pore (now rare).
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > types of gland > [noun]
miliary gland1691
mucilaginous gland1691
mucous gland1699
acinus1702
crypta1726
glandule1751
crypt1804
globate gland1813
ganglion1819
submaxillary1824
lacrimal1829
germ gland1840
sweat-gland1845
ductless glands1849
lymph node1892
metasternal1965
the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > epidermis or cuticle > stoma
spiraclea1774
stomate1835
stomatium1835
miliary gland1836
stoma1837
water pore1850
water stoma1884
mouth pore1888
1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 23 in Ess. Effects Motion The minute or miliary Glandules of the Skin.]
1691 C. Havers in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 16 550 Some are small, and in a manner miliary Glands, being glandules placed all upon the same Surface of the Membrane, which lies over the Articulations.
1715 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. (ed. 2) i. vi. 325 Between these Scales the Excretory Ducts of the Miliary Glands of the true Skin open.
1816 P. Keith Syst. Physiol. Bot. I. 68 The miliary glands of animals.
1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 655 Citron Medica... The outer [rind] thin, with innumerable miliary glands.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 744/1 Miliary Glands, the same as Stomates.
1978 Brittonia 30 247 Miliary glands, stomata.
miliary-sized adj. of the size of a millet seed.
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1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 592 It [sc. the polygonal papule of lichen] is miliary to pepper-corn sized.
1994 Jrnl. Vet. Med. Sci. 56 185 In pigs, an egg-sized and discolored lesion with pinpoint to miliary-sized nodules was observed.
miliary tubercle n. [compare French tubercule miliaire (1810)] any of the small greyish- or yellowish-white granulomatous nodules found in the lungs and other tissues in generalized tuberculosis.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tuber or tubercle
tubercle1583
tuber1706
miliary tubercle1815
mamelon1860
1815 W. Barrow tr. G. L. Bayle Res. Pulmonary Phthisis vi. 62 In some of the patients whose intestines are ulcerated, the intestinal ulceration proceeds from miliary transparent granulations; but commonly they are the miliary tubercles which give rise to this affection.
1827 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 2) i. ii. vii. 355 We find a great many ulcers in the intestines, and in most of these, small miliary tubercles.
1891 F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. (ed. 2) 122 Gray or miliary tubercles, which have a pearly gray or sometimes yellowish-gray colour.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) vii. 149 One form of tuberculous peritonitis consists in the formation of a number of miliary tubercles in the subperitoneal tissue through the whole of the peritoneum.
1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) II. xviii. 179/2 In spite of autopsy evidence that miliary tubercles frequently involve the renal parenchyma, overt clinical renal..tuberculosis is rare.
miliary tuberculosis n. a generalized form of tuberculosis in which there is haematogenous spread of mycobacteria resulting in the formation of numerous small granulomatous lesions in the lungs and other organs (esp. the liver, spleen, kidneys, and meninges).
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1871 W. H. Walshe Pract. Treat. Dis. Lungs (ed. 4) ii. viii. 501 (heading) Acute miliary tuberculisation.]
1874 Proc. Royal Soc. 1873–4 22 145 In miliary tuberculosis of man..we see that the first changes take place in the alveoli and interalveolar septa.
1887 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 50 463 The actual number of deaths from phthisis alone..was 807; but..this does not include those from..other forms closely allied to phthisis, such as acute miliary tuberculosis.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxiv. 661 Finally, death ensues either from acute tuberculous broncho-pneumonia or from acute miliary tuberculosis.
1989 National Med. Jrnl. India 2 292/1 Everybody is trying to re-read the old chest X-rays to see if miliary tuberculosis was really missed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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